Snapshot from the bicycle – A man pulling a piano on a hand lift truck through rural Münsterland. He smiled when I took a photo while passing him on my bike. I was on a May tour with family and friends. On May 1st, people in the German Münsterland traditionally make a May tour, a bike tour with a barrel or crates of beer in a bike trailer and several boozy and jolly stopovers.

In 2012 there was a first wave of ‘when in…’ Tumblrs. Washington is the oldest I found so far, started April 6th, 2012. We have a second wave in 2013 with ‘when you live in…’ or ‘when you really live in…’ City Tumblrs, started by Josie Thaddeus-Johns with her Berlin Tumblr on January 17th, 2013. This is a Link list of all these Tumblr blogs and similar I found. If you have any others, please post a comment.

Millipede – Model of a part of the “Tausendfüßler“, an elevated road in downtown Düsseldorf, Germany. The name means Millipede and comes from it’s many stilts. On Monday, Feb 25th 2013 the demolition starts, all car traffic will disappear into tunnels. On Sunday 24th the Fly-Over will be closed for cars and opened for pedestrians for the first time since it’s construction in the early 1960’s.

Update Feb 23rd 2013, from a mail from the toy store: “Over the whole year 2012 the figures were chosen, bought and placed on the diorama by people in Düsseldorf. Our goal to set 1,000 feet/legs onto the model is reached, in a few weeks the showpiece will be auctioneered for the benefit of people ‘who live under bridges’.”